| ▲ | whstl 2 days ago | |
This is a strawman. They can (and will) switch off individual accounts from the US if the government asks them, and this has been demonstrated earlier this year. No, they haven’t coded a “country-wide kill kill-switch” but having the ability to kill individual accounts, and being in a jurisdiction that demands accounts to be disabled from time to time is equivalent to having such a thing. Also: Remember that several US organizations, including Github, have disabled thousands of accounts from eg Iran in the past is such maneuvers. So: definitely feasible and has definitely happened in the past, with or without the mythical kill switch you talk of. | ||
| ▲ | crazygringo a day ago | parent [-] | |
It's not a strawman. > No, they haven’t coded a “country-wide kill kill-switch” but having the ability to kill individual accounts, and being in a jurisdiction that demands accounts to be disabled from time to time is equivalent to having such a thing. That's preposterous. Disabling a couple of online accounts, versus disabling the computers of an entire nation, you think are the same thing? I don't understand how you can make that argument in good faith. What are you even trying to achieve? | ||